{"id":1082,"date":"2012-06-17T10:18:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2012-10-13T11:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T10:08:31","slug":"no-so-grand-designs-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/everyday-stuff\/no-so-grand-designs-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"No So Grand Designs Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

After moving here to Wales we had the idea of building a porch to help reduce the draught into the house in Winter. This was quickly followed by the idea of building a ‘sun room’ on the other side of the house. Oh how naive we were!!<\/p>\n

Realising that this needed to be done well we set out to find someone to could put our ideas on paper. This lead us to\u00a0 local architects Llewelyn Lewis Sennik <\/a>(Gareth and Anita) who also concluded that if we were going that far we might as well have a Utility Room as well and also do any other upgrading at the same time.<\/p>\n

We did consider installing a ground source heat pump but ultimately decided against this on the grounds of cost. As we already have solar PV<\/a> providing some free electric and indexed linked payments of around \u00a31500 per annum and our own woodland providing us with free wood for the woodburner we decided that a few hundred pounds of oil a year will be all that is needed to keep us warm in the coldest periods (I think that is what economists call a cost benefit analysis!) with all the extra insulation we are installing. I estimate that we should receive around \u00a3600 or \u00a3700 a year more in payments for the PV panels and solar HW than we will payout in energy costs.<\/p>\n

\"Yes
Yes we are going to gut our home! This is how it looks now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To cut a long story short, after a 6 month battle with the planners (including having to employ Planning Consultants) we ended up with Planning Permission to build two contemporary timber clad extensions. In addition we would ‘gut’ the house to add underfloor heating throughout, upgrade the already good insulation to ‘super standard’ and refit most of the house. In addition we would be improving the heating and fitting Solar Hot Water Panels to compliment our recently fitted solar PV Panels.<\/p>\n

\"South
Proposed South Elevation Showing 'Sun Room' window<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So after 18 months of design, trauma and an ever increasing budget we moved out of the house on the 11th June 2012 (into rented accommodation) and the builders moved in to start gutting what most people would see as a perfectly adequate dwelling. Mad or what?<\/p>\n

\"The
The House Before We Started!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And after a week or so the builders stripped out the house now the long process of putting it back together starts! It now looks like the photo below.<\/p>\n

\"The
The Gutted Interior<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Part 2 is here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After moving here to Wales we had the idea of building a porch to help reduce the draught into the house in Winter. This was quickly followed by the idea of building a ‘sun room’ on the other side of the house. Oh how naive we were!! Realising that this needed to be done well … Continue reading “No So Grand Designs Part 1”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[54,4],"tags":[70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizburton.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}